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[misstia]

and i love how it's placed in front of the fireplace!! though it probably warmed the room better than the fireplace....

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[etinterrapax.livejournal.com]

It almost certainly did, and they did that to take advantage of existing chimneys. My grandmother had something like this going on in her house.

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[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

Probably it vented through the existing chimney, and yep on being more efficient as far as combustion of fuel and heating the space. That's a beautiful ad. :)

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[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Yes…

I lived in a place where the fireplace was blocked by a gas-fired heating unit like this one.

[violetscorpion.livejournal.com]

This ad is stunning!

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

That thing looks like a great piece of kit. I wonder if any survive?

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

That is a gorgeous ad. I need to look up "base burner..." because I'm intrigued. What is it, exactly... is it a woodburning stove or gas, or the like? What is the girl holding in her hand?

I also think one of those would be awesome to have. We had a woodburning stove with a decorative door that was glass and the black metal the stove was made out of... I hesitate to say iron, because I'm not sure if that's what it was. It was awesome, though, and I really miss it even though it was inefficient as all get-out and dusty too lol.

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

Okay I just looked it up and apparently it refers to the design; wheras the fuel (coal, for example) would be held in a "base" and burned therein. :)

http://www.antiquestoves.com/base%20burners.htm

[so-low.livejournal.com]

Wow, it's really beautiful!

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[whoseline_wlsc]

This is a pretty ad, and I'm sure it did heat better than the fireplace. I never found fireplaces extremely effective.

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[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I want that! My fireplace just sucks [I could stop the sentence here] the heat out of my house. I think it's really pretty, too, but it would take up floor space.

Pretty ad, too!

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[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Lovely! I saw several of those in Stuhr Museum in NE. Big, beautiful monsters of cast iron and soapstone (the better to contain heat) and I wanted one sooooo badly. Still do!

[herbadness.livejournal.com]

Girlfriend is about to jump up and down screaming as she burned her hand. That's what you get for burning up your report card.